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Sunday, 20 October 2013

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The Aether

The French scientists of the
Consulate of Peace spent many months ensconced within the extraterrestrial
installation, deep beneath the Jura Mountains.
There they happened across greatest discovery in human history, the discovery
that would change the world forever: Terrestrial Aether.

The
truth behind Terrestrial Aether was never revealed to the world. Only the
products of French ingenuity and the marvels that this new element could make
possible stood testament to the discovery. And yet the scientists laboured on,
determined to discover how such a wondrous material could have come to be. After
deciphering knowledge from the complex’s many libraries and glowing logic
engines, the greatest minds in France
were awed to learn that there were many dimensions in existence, and the Aether
was the very stuff that bound them together. All space and time exists by
virtue of the Aether, and all matter and energy is created and conducted
through it.

Beyond
the veil of our own reality, manifold dimensions lie. Some are like our own;
some are utterly alien—planes of scintillating light and Stygian darkness, and
everything in-between. And with knowledge of the Aether, distilled into its
purest form, mankind could conceivably traverse the planes of reality, and even
cross the cold void of space to worlds far beyond our own. And yet in these
myriad places, unimaginable forms of matter and life exist. Alien intelligences
lurk at the fringes of reality, waiting hungrily for the chance to cross into
our world, were they only given the means to traverse the Aether…